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Joseph Conrad and Material Culture – From the Rise of the Commodity Transcendent to the Scramble for Africa (Hardcover)
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Joseph Conrad and Material Culture – From the Rise of the Commodity Transcendent to the Scramble for Africa (Hardcover)
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Joseph Conrad and Material Culture offers a fresh approach to
Conrad’s work, especially his African fictions, by grounding its
discussion in the importance of material culture and its role in
shaping the literary art form in modernity. Opening with the
description of a uniquely carved African tusk as both a work of art
and an object of material culture, Merry M. Pawlowski traces the
scenes of African life displayed on that tusk to establish the
major themes of her study of selected works of Conrad’s fiction
and nonfiction. These themes include the presence of
transculturation in colonial Africa, the transformation of the
African fetish into the commodity fetish, the exploitation of the
African continent through mapping, exploration, and trade, and the
rise of the transcendent commodity. Employing cartographic,
materialist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial theories as
frameworks, Pawlowski offers new insights using details, liminal
presences, in Conrad’s texts enhanced by key illustrations to
expand those details as revelatory of the broader material culture
invoked by the text. The brief mention of a Huntley and Palmers
biscuit tin, the single reference to the Great Exhibition of 1851,
the intriguing hint of a vile scramble for loot, are a few examples
of tantalizing textual presences. Pawlowski explores the presence
of material culture through teasing out gaps, silences, and hints
deployed in Conrad’s works. Revealing the rich context on which
Conrad drew as he wrote, this book offers an opportunity for the
reader to enter Conrad’s world through envisioning the
defamiliarizing spaces from which he drew inspiration for his art.
This book is volume 31 of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western
Perspectives, edited by Wiesław Krajka.
General
Imprint: |
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press
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Country of origin: |
Poland |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
Authors: |
Merry M. Pawlowski
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
350 |
ISBN-13: |
978-83-227-9638-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
83-227-9638-2 |
Barcode: |
9788322796382 |
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